The Eastern Iowa Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights is an organization composed of local coalitions and immigrant, community, religious, civil rights and labor organizations and activists. It serves as a forum to share information and analysis, to educate communities and the general public, and to develop and coordinate plans of action on important immigrant issues.

We work to promote a just immigration and refugee policy in the United States and to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants, regardless of immigration status. The Eastern Iowa Coalition bases its efforts in the principles of equality and justice, and seeks the enfranchisement of all immigrant communities in the United States through organizing and advocating for their full labor, environmental, civil and human rights.

We further recognize the unparalleled change in global, political and economic structures which has exacerbated regional, national and international patterns of migration, and emphasize the need to build international support and cooperation to strengthen the rights, welfare and safety of migrants.